Chinchilla, Australia News

Chinchilla's centenary show begins today and while the town is renown as the watermelon capital one local says it could also lay claim to the being the cross-cut sawing capital! For those who haven't been there, the town is located about 300 kilometres west-north-west of Brisbane on the Warrego highway.

COAL company Linc Energy's chief executive, Peter Bond, is travelling to Adelaide today on a jet powered by fuel made from underground "stranded" coal.

THE Queensland Gas Company has suspended operations at one of its drilling rigs in the state's southwest after detecting a gas leak.

The resources boom in regional Queensland is making headlines for billion dollar deals and propping up the economy, but it's also created some serious social issues for a number of small country towns.

Queensland's expanding coal seam gas industry has created thousands of jobs from the Surat Basin in southern Queensland to the Port of Gladstone on the coast.